7330

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7330
• Author: Suttkus, R. D.
• Title: Progress Report Survey of Fishes, Mammals and Herpetofauna of the Colorado River and Adjacent Riparian Areas of the Grand Canyon National Park.
• USFW Year: 1976.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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Survey- of I;'tshes, ~ch1i(1iJtfds and
Herpetofauna of the rolorado River
and Adjacent ~iparian \reas of the
Grand C~nyon NatiOD11 Park
Contract No. CX821050006

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Royal 'f'l. Suttkt:.s
Tulane University

A float trip was made starting at Lee's Ferry on Septe~ber
1, 1976 and terminating at Pierce's Verry Landing on September 9,

1916. The following individuals were 1'0 our group Glenn H. Clemmer,

Robert D. Fisher (Lee's Ferry to Lower B~BS Camp), Clyde Jones, C.

Robert Shoop and myself. We were unable to include a label writer

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which would have helped considerably with the recording. Mary Jo

Gonzales did help with labeling of plant sheets during the first

part Il'jf trip above Phantom Ranch.

We began our study at Lee's ~erry on August 31, 1976 and finished

prep~u:'a t ton of rnarr..ma Is ell ught a t Scorpion Island on !~eptemb$r 10

in a motel in 'F'lags:ta ff . Prior to the fica t trip the f1 ve membeI'8

above plus JaMes D. Williams collected fishes from the Green River
end upper Colorado ill Utah. nr. tlTillia!ilS from the El'ldangered Species

Office was c~lled back to Washington tn participate in 3 meeting

with TVA. He was not able to rejoin us for the float trip which had

been his plans.

The Gurvey collections from the upper part of tho system ar~

mentioned and their importance as comparative material can not be

overemphasized. As you realize our requested budget for the Grand

Canyon was cut drastically and so all of the survey work in the

upper part of the drainage is at our own expense. Naturally the
Park Service benefits from the added information that we obtain